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Jared (MOVED TO DMV.COMMUNITY)Jun 24, 2023

@wiredfire First I’ve heard about it, but this sounds awesome! Thanks for the heads up about it!

@ktnjared you’re welcome! Happy to spread some noise about it. For years it’s been Pocket or Instapaper, then recently Matter, as options but they all have their challenges. Omnivore is at least as good as each of them, with zero paywalled features or limits.

Really pulls the rug from Matter’s relatively recently developed business model 😅 Pocket & Instapaper at least have their legacy to trade on, I guess?

Toran Shaw Jun 24, 2023

@wiredfire I am. 😏

@toran huzzah!

suzietchi Jun 24, 2023

@wiredfire @omnivore their text to speech feature is just too good. Blows the competition away.

@omnivore @Suzie97 Matter's text to speach I'd say is fractionally better, a little more natural sounding, but there's very little in it. Certainly nothing that's realistically going to sway someone.

suzietchi Jun 24, 2023

@wiredfire @omnivore I did use matter’s text to speech before it was locked on a paywall. sounded pretty unnatural to me. Not sure if they’ve improved it now. But the ultra realistic voice option in omnivore is just fantastic.

@Suzie97 @omnivore considering it’s entirely without charge as well is brilliant. I’m not sure how Matter and others can hope to compete with FOSS when this is the quality we’re getting.

suzietchi Jun 24, 2023

@wiredfire @omnivore Makes sense. Matter still has its social media features which due to being Twitter exclusive I've never tried. Not sure if that the team actually treats it as something that adds value or just a gimmick.

@Suzie97 @omnivore problem is linking your service to some centralised platform puts you at their mercy, as a great many have recently found with Twitter and Reddit!

John Best Jun 24, 2023

@wiredfire I’ve been using it for a couple months now, and it’s been great! Super easy to export notes and highlights if you want to keep them in #logseq or another notetaking app too!

Florian Egermann Jun 24, 2023

@wiredfire @omnivore It’s great. It took me a while because the Mac app still looks like an alpha and I opened that first, but on the web & iPhone it’s really good.

Preslav Rachev Jun 24, 2023

@wiredfire the one thing that really got me stuck to using Matter is the great text-to-speech conversion. Voices are close to natural human ones and the progress of my listening is tracked on the text as well, so I can easily switch back and forth. Is this something that @omnivore supports or is planning to?

@preslavrachev @omnivore Omnivore has solid text to speech. Depending you you speak to it’s either about as good as or better than Matter’s.

LPS Jun 24, 2023

@wiredfire @omnivore that's cool, thanks for the link!

@lps @omnivore you’re welcome! Hope you enjoy checking it out 😁

Julian Cosky Jun 25, 2023

@wiredfire @ellane I’ve been a big Pocket user but Omnivore has taken its place. I don’t need the bells and whistles and Omnivore has great integration with Obsidian too.

Jun 25, 2023

@jcosky @ellane same re: Pocket plus they have been actively removing features from their iPhone app which is a weird move. I’ve not used Obsidian before but thinking I should check it out 😁

Fiddler Jun 28, 2023

@wiredfire Just switched to it from Pocket after I read they are dropping the integration with my Kobo e-reader soon. So far absolutely impressed, it does all I need.

https://github.com/Podginator/KoboOmnivoreConverter

Jun 28, 2023

@Fiddler @omnivore Just heard about the Kobo feature being dropped earlier today. Turns out someone's been working on letting Omnivore be a "drop-in" replacement 😁

GitHub - Podginator/KoboOmnivoreConverter: A Proxy to enable the Kobo Clara to use Omnivore over Pocket for it's articles.

A Proxy to enable the Kobo Clara to use Omnivore over Pocket for it's articles. - Podginator/KoboOmnivoreConverter

GitHub

Guillermo Movia ⭐⭐⭐Jun 28, 2023

@wiredfire @Fiddler @omnivore I didn't know they were to quit that, mostly the only function I still need it from pocket.

Just today I see that pocket import a medium article better than omnivore, but that will change

Jun 29, 2023

@deimidis @Fiddler @omnivore I have much more faith in Omnivore actually acting on reported issues with article importing than Pocket at this point 😁

Omnivore Jun 29, 2023

@wiredfire @deimidis @Fiddler we’ve been known to ignore an importing error or two 😬.

Medium definitely can be a problem but always trying to improve.

Guillermo Movia ⭐⭐⭐Jun 29, 2023

@omnivore @wiredfire @Fiddler I will try to find the problem, but I can promise anything. BTW I'm really happy with omnivore.

Jun 29, 2023

@deimidis @Fiddler @omnivore can’t fault your honesty 😉 😁

tonieee Jun 29, 2023

@wiredfire @Fiddler @omnivore That sounds great! #kobo integration is the only reason I use #pocket and I'll really miss it so I'm looking for an alternative.